West Africa's coastal waters once held some of the richest fish stocks on the planet. This DW documentary travels to Senegal, where local fishermen describe boats returning with empty nets and communities that have depended on the sea for generations losing their livelihoods. Foreign trawlers from Europe, China, Russia, and Turkey work the same waters, often under licensing deals that give little back to the coastal towns whose fish are being taken. Interviews with fishermen, marine biologists, and industry figures lay out how factory ships process catches for export while artisanal crews compete for a shrinking resource close to shore. The film follows the chain from open water to fish markets and processing plants, showing how depleted stocks ripple into food security and unemployment across the region. It treats overfishing not as an abstract environmental statistic but as a daily crisis playing out on specific docks and in specific households, and asks what happens to a coastline once the fish that built its economy are gone.